IT Roadmap Conference & Expo Washington, D.C. 2011
 
12/07/2011
7:30 am - 8:15 amRegistration and Breakfast
8:15 am - 8:30 amIT Roadmap: Welcome and Overview
John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World
8:30 am - 9:15 amThe Future State: Balancing IT Fundamentals and Strategic Innovation to Drive the Enterprise
Omer Siddiqui, CIO, District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority
At DC Water and Sewer, the past year has been all about innovation at the infrastructure level in order to be ready for the rapidly advancing technologies that will bring the agency into the future. With a service area of 725 square miles and a need to provide water and wastewater treatment services to more than 600,000 residents and 16.6 million annual visitors, the authority has a challenge in building the most efficient and transformational IT to serve its mission and constituencies.  In this insightful presentation, hear how IT has created an environment that combines fundamental IT and technology innovation.
 
9:15 am - 9:45 amWhy Your Network is Poised to Thwart Your IT Progress
Abner Germanow, Director, Enterprise Marketing, Juniper Networks

Are you:

  • Creating new digital experiences?
  • Virtualizing servers?
  • Allowing personal mobile devices?
  • Adopting SaaS or cloud services?
If so, your network might be designed for an age when these IT innovations were beyond the horizon. In this session, Abner Germanow, Director of Enterprise Marketing will review ways your network threatens to cripple other IT investments and the questions you need to ask to stay ahead.
9:45 am - 10:15 amVisibility: The Missing Ingredient in the Cloud
Paul Hooper, VP of Marketing, Gigamon
With the emergence of public, private and hybrid clouds, information now moves between physical and virtual environments and from private to public clouds, creating new challenges for IT.  There has never been a more important time for IT organizations to have visibility of the traffic on their network.  This session will discuss how to maintain and enhance the visibility that is essential for Enterprises to secure, monitor and manage their networks.
 
10:15 am - 10:35 amNetworking Break
10:35 am - 12:30 amMorning Technology Tracks
10:35 am - 12:30 pmThe Public and Private CloudThe Connected EnterpriseThe Modern NetworkThe New Data CenterThe Evolving Threat Landscape
10:35 am - 12:30 pmWith virtualization and “as-a-service” offerings paving the way for efficient investments, we’ll explore how companies adopt public, private and hybrid clouds.Savvy enterprises are weaving together VoIP, unified communications and dynamic WAN. We’ll explore how mobile technologies are supporting the distributed enterprise.New technologies are flattening networks and modernizing communications by moving data traffic more efficiently. We’ll examine the path to cloud-friendly environments.Data storage remains a key challenge for today’s IT leaders. We’ll look at how the move to blade servers, utility computing, unified fabrics and pooled storage creates agility for today’s dynamic business environments.We’ll take a close look at how to defend the corporate fortress against new threats from today’s sophisticated cybercriminals and attacks.
10:35 am - 11:20 amMoving the Enterprise to the Secure Cloud
Zeus Kerravala, Founder & Principal Analyst, ZK Research
How VoIP, UC, and Mobility are Enabling the Distributed Enterprise
Robin Gareiss, Network World Columnist; Executive Vice President and Sr. Founding Partner, Nemertes Research
The Enterprise Network in the Era of the Cloud
Rohit Mehra, Director, Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, IDC
IT Transformation and Digitization: Key Drivers for Virtualized and Converged Data Centers
Richard L. Villars, Vice President, Storage and IT Executive Strategies , IDC
Protecting Your Mobile and Virtual Environment from Emerging Security Threats
Ted Ritter, Senior Research Analyst, Nemertes Research
11:25 am - 11:55 amVisibility in the Enterprise Extending into the Cloud
Paul Hooper, VP of Marketing, Gigamon
As private and public cloud opportunities receive more and more attention and adoption, how can the visibility that has successfully enabled monitoring and management of enterprise environments scale into the virtual world?  In this session we will discuss the power of a "Visibility Fabric" and how it can provide insight into both the physical and the virtual world.
 
UC Roadmap Considerations in Higher Education
Ed Martin, Deputy CIO , The George Washington University
Students, staff, and faculty have greater overall access to wireless signal, and the end user expectation of convergence is rising at the George Washington University.  Trends of telecommunications technology, user behaviors, cost changes, and demand shift are leading us to consider a converged model for telecommunications services delivery.     In this presentation, Mr. Martin will describe the opportunity and risks of message convergence in higher education, and briefly outline the planned process to source selection and procurement at the George Washington University.
 
The Future of the Network: Preparing for the Paradigm Shift
Brandon Porco, CTO, Northrop Grumman
As organizations embrace the cloud, a massive paradigm shift is nearing that will force the transformation of networks and security. Join Brandon Porco, IT Solutions CTO for Northrop Grumman’s Technical Services and Information Systems sectors, for an overview of several key concepts that could change the landscape of network and security professions in the near future.
 
Time for a New Network
Abner Germanow, Director, Enterprise Marketing, Juniper Networks
Cybersecurity -- Navigating Next Generation Threats
John B. Sapp, Jr., Senior Director, Information Security Product Management & Innovation, McKesson Corp.
12:00 pm - 12:30 pmGrowing the Enterprise in the Cloud: An Executive Panel with Zeus Kerravala
Todd Sherwood, Deputy Director , National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) Expeditionary Architecture IPO
Paul Hooper, VP of Marketing, Gigamon
Enabling the Connected Enterprise: An Executive Panel with Robin Gareiss
Ed Martin, Deputy CIO , The George Washington University
Solutions for a Modern Network: An Executive Interview with Rohit Mehra
Brandon Porco, CTO, Northrop Grumman
Building an Effective Data Center Approach: An Executive Panel with Richard Villars
Bob Bell, Chief Information Officer, Armed Forces Benefit Association
Abner Germanow, Director, Enterprise Marketing, Juniper Networks
Protecting Against Growing Enterprise Threats: An Executive Panel with Ted Ritter
John B. Sapp, Jr., Senior Director, Information Security Product Management & Innovation, McKesson Corp.
12:30 pm - 2:00 pmLunch & Expo (Lunch served until 2:00pm; Expo open until 4:30pm)
2:10 pm - 4:00 pmAfternoon Breakout Sessions
2:10 pm - 4:00 pmBreakout Sessions: Track ABreakout Sessions: Track BBreakout Session: Track CBreakout Session: Track D
2:10 pm - 4:00 pmTrack Moderator
Zeus Kerravala, Founder & Principal Analyst, ZK Research
Track Moderator
Robin Gareiss, Network World Columnist; Executive Vice President and Sr. Founding Partner, Nemertes Research
Track Moderator
Rohit Mehra, Director, Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, IDC
Track Moderator
Ted Ritter, Senior Research Analyst, Nemertes Research
2:10 pm - 2:40 pmThe Windows 7 and 2010 Imperative: Are You Ready?Security and Performance in the Cloud: How to Overcome the Two Most Frequent Obstacles in Your Path to the Cloud
Jeff Katzen, Sr. Manager, Cloud Business Solutions, Savvis
Cloud computing remains center stage and for good reason.  Now well beyond just the hyped up promise of providing greater business value, it is truly delivering IT agility and market responsiveness under a manageable cost model for many leading organizations. However, as global companies become increasingly driven to leverage cloud technologies to reap these benefits, questions and concerns around performance and privacy capabilities remain and have become costly obstacles in achieving a sound cloud strategy.  This presentation will highlight capabilities to look for in selecting a cloud provider who can reduce the risk of cloud migrations.
 
Demystifying the Cloud With a Look at Hybrid Hosting and OpenStack
Robert Collazo, Systems Engineer, Rackspace Hosting
Authentication in the Cloud- How to Combine Security, Convenience and Mobility
Ray Wizbowski, Vice President of Strategic Marketing, Gemalto
During the 1990s, remote network access opened a new era for IT Managers. The advent of web access control and virtual private networks paved the way for secure and real-time access for executives, employees and partners. Today, these access solutions must evolve for both access and authentication. IT Managers must implement solutions that provide secure authentication to both on-premise and off premise applications. As off-premise data stores can hold highly sensitive information, encryption and digital signature are no longer options, they are mandatory! This session will review the challenges of user and administrator authentication to cloud-based applications and how “secure element” offers can provide easy-to-use and secure authentication across a host of form-factors, both desktop and mobile.
 
2:50 pm - 3:20 pmNext Generation Mobility Solution - Beyond Just Connectivity Speed and Security
Dilip Patel, Sr. Marketing Manager, Enterprise Networking Group, Dell, Inc.
Other than secure and fast network, you need mobility solution that can provide differentiated service based on type of user, device and application with ability to scale from a consultant’s office to a multi-campus enterprise – and Dell can help.  Please come and learn about the Dell PowerConnect W-Series Wireless solution.
Make the Most of Your Endpoint Protection with 4 Easy Ways to Stop Threats
John Metzger, Endpoint Security Expert, Sophos
Today’s threats are more sophisticated and targeted, making the data protection challenge even more difficult for IT managers.  And, tight budgets and limited resources mean organizations have to do more with less.  Join John Metzger of Sophos to learn 4 easy ways to use your AV to protect your data.
 
Cloud Computing – Ready for Primetime?
Pat Patla, VP of Server Product Marketing , AMD
For Government and global business today, more and more organizations must be able to function anywhere, anytime. Cloud is delivering on that requirement and as one of the pioneers in cloud technologies; AMD today runs a high-performance computing cloud that supports thousands of engineers worldwide with approximately 40 million jobs executed monthly. As an integral part of how AMD is able to meet expanding demand for IT resources, the cloud offers immense flexibility while helping to cut overall spending on hardware and data centers. In this session, you will hear from Pat Patla, AMD’s Corporate Vice President of Product Development talk about Cloud adoption in Private and Public Sector markets plus lessons AMD learned from building and implementing one of the largest private cloud implementations in the industry.
 
Unified Communications: A Killer App for Cloud Computing?
Randy Cross, Director of Data Center Virtualization and Strategy , Avaya Networking
Is unified communications one of the applications that is going to further drive the adoption of cloud computing?  This session is an exploration of cloud business models as it applies to the emergence of Communications as a Service (CaaS). It will review the trends impacting businesses today, the technology which defines today’s Collaboration Era and will explore the role of virtualization in creating a consumer-like communications experience with enterprise reliability. The focus will be on Private Clouds from both an Enterprise owned and hosted perspective; however, there will also be discussion of Hybrid Cloud services created by integrating Public Cloud applications with Private Cloud based CaaS.
 
3:30 pm - 4:00 pmTechnology Risk Management-Information Security Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Automation-Integrating ESM with Network Access Control
Darell Hawkins, Managing Director, Bank of New York Mellon
Attend this session and learn how Darrell Hawkins, Managing Director,  has lead the establishment and implementation of an automated GRC policy where the integration of network access control with security event and incident management (SEIM) provides a greater insight into suspicious activity across the network.  Darrell will discuss how removing the burden of manually monitoring compliance issues allows his team to focus proactively on countering threats.
Making the Business Case for Unified Communications & IP Telephony
Robin Gareiss, Network World Columnist; Executive Vice President and Sr. Founding Partner, Nemertes Research
Adding Intelligence to Enterprise Networks
Rohit Mehra, Director, Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, IDC
Enabling Business Class Cloud Computing
Scott Cassell, Sr. Director of Ethernet Product Management, Comcast Business Services

Due to today's business environment having continually evolving technological, economic, and business requirements. Cloud computing is fast becoming an integral part of a growing number of company's IT roadmaps.  Cloud Computing offers the promises of consolidation, economy of scale, cost effectiveness in a shrinking budget environment, as well as advance software, services, and platforms that would not otherwise be available or viable to support for many businesses. 

A key component in the growth of Cloud Computing has been the evolution of Carrier Ethernet over the last 10 years. The Metro Ethernet Forum,  telecommunications service providers, and hardware manufacturers have worked together to create a next generation transport model using ethernet as a medium that has facilitated the adoption and growth of Cloud Computing. Carrier Ethernet and Cloud Computing have formed a virtual partnership that has been proven to drive efficiency, allow for cost effective IT solutions, and provide businesses with otherwise unattainable hardware and software platforms.  This virtual partnership will continue to evolve beyond our expectations and unlock technology that will revolutionize the IT roadmaps of tomorrow.
 
4:00 pm - 4:30 pmCocktail Reception and Prize Passport Drawing in the Expo (You must be present to win)